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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 6
06 May 2007 12:41:36 GMT
Source: Reuters
May 6 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1220 GMT on Sunday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 35 people and wounded 80 others near a crowded market in Baghdad's Shi'ite neighbourhood of Bayaa, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed and four others were wounded by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

* ANBAR PROVINCE - Two U.S. Marines were killed on Saturday while conducting combat operations in Anbar province in western Iraq, the U.S. military said in a statement.

* SAMARRA - Two suicide car bombers attacked police positions in Samarra, killing eight people, including the city's police commander, in apparently coordinated attacks in which gunmen also fired mortar bombs, police and army sources said.

* BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said it killed up to 10 militants and destroyed a torture room during a raid in Baghdad's Sadr City targeting suspected members of a cell known for smuggling sophisticated bombs from Iran.

* BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two people and wounded 10 others in the Mansour district of western Baghdad, police said.

* GARMA - Police said they found the bodies of three policemen, shot and tortured, in the town of Garma, near Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad.

* KIRKUK - Major General Adnan Thabit escaped a roadside bomb attack near his motorcade in Kirkuk, police said.

* KUT - A roadside bomb exploded near the house of a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, wounding three of his sons in the city of Kut, 170 km (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

* KUT - Gunmen attacked a policeman and an Iraqi translator working in a U.S. military base, seriously wounding the pair in the city of Kut, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 11 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded nine others in the Karrada district of central Baghdad late on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three people were killed and four wounded when a mortar round landed in the Shi'ite district of Abu Dshir in southern Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

NEAR BALAD - Gunmen killed a police colonel on Saturday in the town of Yethrib, near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Six civilians were wounded on Saturday when several mortar rounds landed in the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (150 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


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